Study Task 02 - Parody or Pastiche?

Felluga, Dino
- Secondary text
- Academic journals on critical essays.
Citation: Felluga, Dino. "Modules on Jameson: On Pastiche." Introductory Guide to Critical Theory. Date of last update, which you can find on the home page. Purdue U. Date you accessed the site. <http://www.purdue.edu/guidetotheory/postmodernism/modules/jamesonpastiche.html>.
- Felluga is from Purdue University
https://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/postmodernism/modules/jamesonpastiche.html

1. Felluga identifies that Jameson does not consider parody like Hutcheson but rather pastiche
2. Felluga’s writing explains Jamesons arguments and uses examples to clarify
3. Jameson characterizes postmodern parody as "blank parody" without any political bite
4. Parody has, in the postmodern age, been replaced by pastiche: "Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar or unique, idiosyncratic style, the wearing of a linguistic mask, speech in a dead language. But it is a neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody's ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter”.
5. In such a world of pastiche, we lose our connection to history, which gets turned into a series of styles and superceded genres, or simulacra: "The new spatial logic of the simulacrum can now be expected to have a momentous effect on what used to be historical time”.
6. Felluga states examples of Jameson that supports Jamesons statements.


Felluga, Dino
- Secondary text
- Academic journals on critical essays
Citation: Felluga, Dino. "Modules on Hutcheon: On Parody." Introductory Guide to Critical Theory. Date of last update, which you can find on the home page. Purdue U. Date you accessed the site. <http://www.purdue.edu/guidetotheory/postmodernism/modules/hutcheonparody.html>.
https://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/postmodernism/modules/hutcheonparody.html

1. Post Modernism is parody. "takes the form of self-conscious, self-contradictory, self-undermining statement”. Post modernism therefore makes fun of modernism. This is supported by Hutcheon’s statement, ”Parody—often called ironic quotation, pastiche, appropriation, or intertextuality—is usually considered central to postmodernism, both by its detractors and its defenders”.
2. Jameson “considers such postmodern parody as a symptom of the age, one way in which we have lost our connection to the past and to effective political critique”.
3. Hutcheon states that parody has basis unlike Pastiche as its form is derived from past examples. "through a double process of installing and ironizing, parody signals how present representations come from past ones and what ideological consequences derive from both continuity and difference"
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Frederic Jameson
- Primary text
- Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends.
- A biased view against postmodernism and parody.

1. Jameson definition of pastiche: Parody is the imitation of a peculiar or unique, idiosyncratic style, the wearing of a linguistic mask, speech in a dead language.
2. Pastiche definition: a neutral practice of such mimicry, without of parody’s ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter and of any conviction that alongside the abnormal tongue you have momentarily borrowed, some healthy linguistic normality still exists. Thus blank parody.
3. Parody examples: idiosyncrasies of the moderns and their “inimitable” styles. "the Faulknerian long sentence, for example, with its breathless gerundives; Lawrentian nature imagery punctuated by testy colloquialism; Wallace Stevens's inveterate hypostasis of nonsubstantive parts of speech ('the intricate evasions of as')"
4. Pastiche examples: "randomly and without principle but with gusto cannibalizes all the architectural styles of the past and combines them in overstimulating ensembles”. this relates to his point of how pastiche is blank parody and has no basis.
Jameson studied marxism and thus is concerned with revolution. Therefore the idea of parody having a ulterior motive is based on his studies of communist revolutions having similar “motives”.
- Modernism has this political charge and unification. he doesn’t like post modernism via the definition of pastiche. the re absorption of history to the point where it becomes useless and baseless.

Linda Hutcheon
Canadian academic working in the fields of literary theory and criticism, opera, and Canadian studies
A defence of postmodernism. She thinks parody is pastiche therefore does not use pastiche in her essay.
1. Parody unsettles all doxa, all accepted beliefs and ideologies.
2. She argues against Eagleton and Jameson that parody is not essentially depthless, "but rather that it can and does lead to a vision of disconnectedness" (1986, p.182). 
3. She argues that the existence of post modernism does not share the same principles as modernism and therefore cannot be looked at from the perspective of it ever achieving "genuine historicity" as Jameson desires. Post modernism should be looked at as an form of protest in that it challenges the possibility of there ever being a "ultimate object" as modernism tries to achieve. 
3. States that all postmodernist artwork share the same quality of being "resolutley historical and inescapably political precisely because they are parodic" (1986, p. 180)
4.  Hutcheon argues that post modernism is paradoxically dependent on the existence of modernism as it "historically preceded it and literally made it possible" (1986, p. 180)
5.  Hutcheon suggests that Modernism which is referred to as past referent should not be kept in a sealed environment, free from deviation and critique. The past is "incorporateed and modified, given new and different life and meaning" (1986, p.182) through Post Modernism. By doing so it breaks the discursive reality of the past. 
6. Hutcheon heavily criticises Jameson's description of pastiche, stating that Post modernist architecure not random or "without principle", to say so would disregard the work done by architects Charles Moore and Ricardo Bofill. Post modernism does not necessarily exclude seriousness and purposefulness when it exclude irony and play in its design. 
 

Jameson
- Pastiche
- Parody becomes pastiche
- Non-political/Capitalist
- De-historicising
- Past as code
- Modernism is king
- Post modernism is capitalist

Huchteon
- Parody
- Parody is parody
- Politically charged
- re-reading of the past
- the past incorporated
- Post modernism is king
- Modernism is capitalist